Transiting exoplanet atmospheres in the era of JWST

EMR Kempton, HA Knutson - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The field of exoplanet atmospheric characterization has recently made considerable
advances with the advent of high-resolution spectroscopy from large ground-based …

Retrieving temperatures and abundances of exoplanet atmospheres with high-resolution cross-correlation spectroscopy

M Brogi, MR Line - The Astronomical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
High-resolution spectroscopy (R≥ 25,000) has recently emerged as one of the leading
methods for detecting atomic and molecular species in the atmospheres of exoplanets …

Characterizing transiting exoplanet atmospheres with JWST

TP Greene, MR Line, C Montero… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore how well spectra from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will likely
constrain bulk atmospheric properties of transiting exoplanets. We start by modeling the …

Outstanding challenges of exoplanet atmospheric retrievals

JK Barstow, K Heng - Space science reviews, 2020 - Springer
Spectral retrieval has long been a powerful tool for interpreting planetary remote sensing
observations. Flexible, parameterised, agnostic models are coupled with inversion …

Extremely irradiated hot Jupiters: non-oxide inversions, H− opacity, and thermal dissociation of molecules

JD Lothringer, T Barman, T Koskinen - The Astrophysical Journal, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Extremely irradiated hot Jupiters, exoplanets reaching dayside temperatures> 2000 K,
stretch our understanding of planetary atmospheres and the models we use to interpret …

Where is the water? Jupiter-like C/H ratio but strong H2O depletion found on τ Boötis b using SPIRou

S Pelletier, B Benneke, A Darveau-Bernier… - The Astronomical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The present-day envelope of gaseous planets is a relic of how these giant planets originated
and evolved. Measuring their elemental composition therefore presents a powerful …

High-resolution Spectroscopic Detection of TiO and a Stratosphere in the Day-side of WASP-33b

SK Nugroho, H Kawahara, K Masuda… - The Astronomical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report high-resolution spectroscopic detection of TiO molecular signature in the day-side
spectra of WASP-33b, the second hottest known hot Jupiter. We used the High Dispersion …

Neutral iron emission lines from the dayside of KELT-9b: the GAPS program with HARPS-N at TNG XX

L Pino, JM Désert, M Brogi, L Malavolta… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first detection of atomic emission lines from the atmosphere of an exoplanet.
We detect neutral iron lines from the dayside of KELT-9b (T eq∼ 4000 K). We combined …

He I λ 10 830 Å in the transmission spectrum of HD209458 b

FJ Alonso-Floriano, IAG Snellen, S Czesla… - Astronomy & …, 2019 - aanda.org
Context. Recently, the He I triplet at 10 830 Å was rediscovered as an excellent probe of the
extended and possibly evaporating atmospheres of close-in transiting planets. This has …

No thermal inversion and a solar water abundance for the hot Jupiter HD 209458b from HST/WFC3 spectroscopy

MR Line, KB Stevenson, J Bean… - The Astronomical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The nature of the thermal structure of hot Jupiter atmospheres is one of the key questions
raised by the characterization of transiting exoplanets over the past decade. There have …